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  • 1. Knowest thou the time whe the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes? or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue?
  • 2. Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
  • 3. They lye downe, they calue their young ones, and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine:
  • 4. Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them.
  • 5. Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule?
  • 6. Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling.
  • 7. They force not for the multitude of people in the citie, neither regarde the crying of the driuer:
  • 8. But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse.
  • 9. Wyll the vnicorne do thee seruice, or abide still by thy cribbe?
  • 10. Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes?
  • 11. Mayst thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour vnto him?
  • 12. Mayst thou beleue him that he wyll bring home thy corne, or carry any thing vnto thy barne?
  • 13. Gauest thou the faire winges vnto the pecockes, or winges and fethers vnto the Estriche?
  • 14. For she leaueth her egges in the earth, and heateth them in the dust.
  • 15. She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste.
  • 16. So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare.
  • 17. And that because God hath taken wysdome from her, & hath not geuen her vnderstanding.
  • 18. When her time is that she fleeth vp on hie, she careth neither for the horse nor the ryder.
  • 19. Hast thou geue the horse his strength, or learned him to ney coragiously?
  • 20. Canst thou make him afrayde as a grashopper? where as the stoute neying that he maketh is fearefull.
  • 21. He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete, he reioyceth cherefully in his strength, and runneth to meete the harnest men.
  • 22. He layeth aside all feare, his stomacke is not abated, neither starteth he backe for any sworde.
  • 23. Though the quiuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shielde glister:
  • 24. Yet rusheth he in fiercely beating the grounde, he thinketh it not the noyse of the trumpettes:
  • 25. But when the trumpettes make most noyse, he saith, tushe, for he smelleth the battaile a farre of, the noyse of the captaines and the shouting.
  • 26. Commeth it through thy wysdome that the Goshauke flieth toward the south?
  • 27. Doth the Egle mount vp, and make his nest on hye at thy comaundement?
  • 28. He abydeth in stony rockes, and dwelleth vpon the hye toppes of moutaines:
  • 29. From whence he seeketh his praye, and loketh farre about with his eyes.
  • 30. His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where any dead body lyeth, there is he.